The book exists to educate readers, not to be preserved for its own sake. The teacher found a good use for the book in order to educate her students. Apparently her action left a lasting impression on at least one person of influence.

I find it annoying when people inject profanity into content that doesn't need it at all.

I remember one very funny sketch comedy video that came through my RSS reader a couple of years ago. I would definitely have posted it. But at the end, for no reason whatsoever, a person in the video screamed a swear word.

One syllable: run.

Yes, you're right. Let me fix that.

If only we had placed Cavity Sam on the Pioneer 10 plaque.

No, but I've thought about purchasing and wearing to work a My Little Pony necktie because, as Twilight says, "reading is for everypony."

Thanks for pointing that out.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Jackson held his pony mercenaries in reserve, so they aren't visible in this painting.

I'm curious about that, too.

But it sure looks like fun!

"..and other duties as assigned."